There’s an epidemic of tick-transmitted Lyme disease, with possibly 476,000 people a year diagnosed and treated in the U.S.

Vector-borne diseases in Africa pose increasing threats due to factors like population expansion, livestock movement, and climate change. Ticks, as ...

Ticks are parasitic arachnids that feed on the blood of mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. They vary in size and ...

Japan’s health ministry on June 23 announced the world’s first infection ... There are several tick-borne infectious diseases, such as “severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome ...

Vector-borne zoonotic diseases, transmitted by pathogens via arthropods like mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas, comprise 17% of the global infectious disease ...

Alpha-gal syndrome, affects hundreds of thousands of Americans and is particularly prevalent in the southeastern United ...

R. conorii conorrii Rh. sanguineus (I. ricinus) Mediterranean spotted fever Rash (97%); single eschar; case–fatality rate without treatment (0–18%) R. conorii israelensis Rh. sanguineus ...

The critters have inflicted deadly TBEV in the UK – which can cause grey matter to swell, paralysis and the devastation of the central nervous system - before, infections had only struck overseas ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite that causes malaria in humans, has been generated.

MenABCWY covers five of the six serogroups that cause most disease worldwide, with the B, C, and Y strains responsible for most cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) encountered in the US.

Researchers created an extensive database known as the Mosquito-Associated Isolate Collection (MosAIC) to help reduce the ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — A new retrospective, laboratory-based observational study provides detailed insights into the causes of fevers of unknown origin in sub-Saharan Africa. Scientists examined 550 ...